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Sun May 11, 2008

THE OTTO KINKELDEY AWARD

This award was inaugurated in 1967 to recognize the most distinguished book in musicology published during the previous year.

It is named after Otto Kinkeldey, Honorary President of the Society until his death in 1966. He held the first chair in musicology at a university in the United States at Cornell University between 1930 and 1946, was a charter member of the Society, and served as its President in 1935–36 and 1941–42.

                                         RECIPIENTS

2007 Philip Gossett Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0226304825)
2006 Richard Taruskin The Oxford History of Western Music (Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0195169794)
2005 Susan McClary Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal (University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0520234936)
2005 Finalist: Ruth A. Solie Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations (University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0520238451)
2005 Finalist: Elijah Wald Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Amistad Press, 2004, ISBN 0060524235)
2004 Daniel Heartz Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780 (W. W. Norton & Co., 2003)
2004 Finalist: Wendy Heller Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice (University of California Press, 2003)
2004 Finalist: Christopher Reynolds Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music (Harvard University Press, 2003)
2003 Anne Walters Robertson Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works, (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
2003 Finalist: Richard Leppert Essays on music (Theodor W. Adorno): Selected, with Introduction, Commentary, and Notes (University of California Press, 2002)
2002 Ellen T. Harris Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas (Harvard University Press, 2001)
2001 Laurel E. Fay Shostakovich: a Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
2001 Christoph Wolff Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000)
2000 Mary Hunter The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment (Princeton University Press, 1999)
2000 Thomas J. Mathiesen Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
1999 Jane A. Bernstein Music Printing in Renaissance Venice: the Scotto Press (1539-1572) (New York : Oxford University Press, 1998)
1999 John A. Rice Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
1998 Scott DeVeaux The Birth of Bebop: a Social and Musical History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
1997 Richard Taruskin Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)
1997 Laurence Dreyfus Bach and the Patterns of Invention (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996)
1996 Charles Rosen The Romantic Generation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995)
1995 Richard Kramer Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
1994 Margot Fassler Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) 
1993 Eric Chafe Monteverdi's Tonal Language (New York: Schirmer, 1992)
1993 Lewis Rowell Music and Musical Thought in Early India (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)
1992 James Webster Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
1991 No Award  
1990 Thomas Forrest Kelly The Beneventan Chant (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
1990 Craig Wright Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500–1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
1989 Maynard Solomon Beethoven Essays (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988)
1988 Karol Berger Music Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflection in Vocal Polyphony from Marchetto da Padua to Gioseffo Zarlino(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1987)
1988 Anthony Seeger Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
1987 Frederick Neuman Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986)
1986 Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson And Robert Winter The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985)
1985 Lewis Lockwood Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400–1505: the creation of a musical center in the fifteenth century(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984)
1984 Howard Mayer Brown A Florentine Chansonnier from the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983)
1983 Edwin M. Good Giraffes, Black Dragons, and other pianos: a Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1982)
1982 Joseph Kerman The Masses and Motets of William Byrd (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981) 
1981 George Perle The Operas of Alban Berg: Volume I, Wozzeck (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980)
1980 Leeman L. Perkins & Howard Garey The Mellon Chansonnier (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979)
1980 Nicholas Temperley The Music of the English Parish Church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
1979 No award  
1978 Richard L. Crocker The Early Medieval Sequence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977)
1977 H.C. Robbins Landon Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. III: Haydn in London 1791–1795 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976)
1976 David P. McKay & Richard Crawford William Billings of Boston: eighteenth-century composer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975)
1975 Vivian Perlis Charles Ives Remembered: an Oral History (New Haven: Yale University Press,1974)
1974 Robert L. Marshall The Compositional Process of J.S. Bach (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972)
1973 H. Colin Slim A Gift of Madrigals and Motets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972)
1972 Albert Seay Jacobus Arcadelt, Opera Omnia, vol. II ([Tübingen:] American Institute of Musicology, 1971)
1971 Daniel Heartz Pierre d‘Attaingnant, Royal Printer of Music (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970)
1971 Joseph Kerman Ludwig van Beethoven, Autograph Miscellany from ca. 1786 to 1799. British Museum add. ms. 19801 (The ‘Kafka Sketchbook’) (Oxford University Press, 1970)
1970 Nino Pirrotta Li Due Orfei, da Poliziano a Monteverdi (Turin: RAI, 1969)
1969 Edward Lowinsky The Medici Codex of 1518 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968)
1968 Rulan Chao Pian Sonq Dynasty Musical Sources and their Interpretation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967)
1967 William W. Austin Music in the Twentieth Century (New York: W. W. Norton, 1966)


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